Freedom of Information Data

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 5 December 2017

Tuesday, 5 December 2017

Questions (546)

John McGuinness

Question:

546. Deputy John McGuinness asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of freedom of information requests received by his Department to date in 2017; the number of which the period of consideration was completed within four weeks of the receipt of the request; and the number of which the period of consideration was extended by up to four weeks in view of the fact that the necessary resources to complete the request within the original timeframe were not available, in tabular form. [51866/17]

Written answers

Minister of State at the Department of Defence

My Department received a total of 152 FOI requests between 1st January and 30th November 2017 (inclusive). Of these, 29 requests were withdrawn by the requester, 21 were transferred to other FOI bodies as the documents requested were not held by the Department of Defence, and 9 are still being processed. Therefore, the Department of Defence has issued decisions on 93 FOI requests between the dates specified. These responses are detailed in the following table.

Number of FOI requests to which responses were issued by the Department to date in 2017	Number of requests answered within 4 week timeframe	Number of requests extended (with agreement of the requester) by up to 4 weeks
93	79	14